MISSIONARIES
FOR CHRISTMercer and Curry will address the SBC on June 11. They also will
be available at the Executive Committee booth in the SBC exhibit hall
following the Tuesday morning session. Read
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Come join us for fellowship and meeting at the 2002 SBC Annual
Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri at The America's Center. Through
a missions emphasis fashioned around the SBC theme of "The
Highest Power for the Greatest Task, we will make a fresh commitment
to evangelism and to missions to reach people for Christ."

We also introduced a new thrust, "Empowering Kingdom Growth,"
as a vision for what Jesus taught and called for -- a thoroughgoing
concentration on the kingdom of God. The EKG thrust has been endorsed
by the Southern Baptist Association of State Convention Executive
Directors and the SBC Executive Committee.

SBC
in St. Louis: new president, missions, family, kingdom of God
ST. LOUIS (BP)--Southern Baptists will elect a new president and
move forward in missions, family life and vision for the kingdom
of God during their June 11-12 annual meeting in St. Louis. The
election will take place Tuesday afternoon, June 11, in St. Louis'
America's Center, site of the two-day SBC annual meeting and various
auxiliary meetings such as the June 9-10 Pastors' Conference and
Woman's Missionary Union Annual Meeting and Missions Celebration.

Pastors'
Conference to honor 'heroes of faith' in St. LouisST.
LOUIS (BP)--Honoring "heroes of the faith," both unsung
pastors and well-known leaders, will be a key theme of the June
9-10 Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference in St. Louis, the group's
president and Florida pastor Ken Whitten said. Pastoral heroes will
be honored with video and musical tributes and an offering to support
retired ministers.